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 Crime and Punishment: Essential Primary SourcesCrime, and the issues that relate to it, arouse compelling curiosity and fervent debate. In the human psyche, crimes and their underlying motives often capture equal measures of fascination and revulsion. In the media, criminals are both condemned and granted celebrity. Accordingly, the readings and resources offered in Crime and Punishment:... | | Gender Issues and Sexuality: Essential Primary Sources
Gender Issues and Sexuality: Essential Primary Sources provides insight into the personal, social, and political issues of gender and sexuality—issues that range from what many hold as intimate matters of personal belief to matters that stir, shake, and thus profoundly shape modern society.
The women’s rights and gay... | | Gale Encyclopedia of Everyday LawThe Gale Encyclopedia of Everyday Law is a twovolume encyclopedia of practical information on laws and issues affecting people’s everyday lives. Readers will turn to this work for help in answering questions such as, “What is involved in estate planning?” “Do I have any recourse to noisy neighbors?” and “What are... |
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The Gale Encyclopedia Of Cancer: A Guide To Cancer And Its Treatments (Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer) 2 Volume Set
Unfortunately, man must suffer disease. Some diseases
are totally reversible and can be effectively treated.
Moreover, some diseases with proper treatment have
been virtually annihilated, such as polio, rheumatic
fever, smallpox, and, to some extent, tuberculosis. Other
diseases seem to target one organ, such as the heart,... | | The Gale Encyclopedia of Senior Health: A Guide for Seniors and Their CaregiversThe Gale Encyclopedia of Senior Health: A Guide for Seniors and Their Caregivers is a unique and invaluable source of information. This collection of over 600 entries provides in-depth coverage of cover various issues related to one’s aging body, how diseases affect it, and treatment options, including medications, for seniors. The set will... | | AIDS/Hiv (Information Plus Reference Series)
AIDS/HIV is part of the Information Plus Reference
Series. The purpose of each volume of the series is to
present the latest facts on a topic of pressing concern in
modern American life. These topics include today’s most
controversial and most studied social issues: abortion,
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World of Sports ScienceSports offer both competition and a path to fitness. Accordingly, sports science has grown beyond the exclusive application of science toward improving competitive performance to applications that improve the quality of life and health. Sports and the advances in sports science have, however, increasing impact on broad segments of society—... | | National Security (Information Plus Reference Series)National Security is part of the Information Plus Reference Series. The purpose of each volume of the series is to present the latest facts on a topic of pressing concern in modern American life. These topics include today’s most controversial and most studied social issues: abortion, capital punishment, care for the elderly, crime, the... | | Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations, United Nations
Th e swift course of domestic and world events, part of a hastened process of change, requires an enormous increase of basic understanding by peoples of the multiple factors infl uencing the tempo and direction of national developments. Th e pattern of intercultural penetration and cross-fertilizing exchanges of scientifi c and technological... |
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Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations, Africa
Situated in northwestern Africa along the Mediterranean Sea, Algeria is the second-largest country on the continent. Comparatively, it is slightly less than 3.5 times the size of Texas, with a total area of 2,381,740 sq km (919,595 sq mi). Extending about 2,400 km (1,500 mi) e–w and 2,100 km (1,300 mi) n–s, Algeria is bounded on... | | Gale Encyclopedia of Science (Encyclopedia of Science 6 Vol.)
The Gale Encyclopedia of Science (GES) is devoted to providing younger students and general readers with a foundation upon which to build an understanding of modern science.
Although as expansive and inclusive as size allows, any encyclopedia devoted to science can only hope to wade a bit along the shore of a vast ocean of... | | Encyclopedia of Products & Industries: ManufacturingEncyclopedia of Products & Industries—Manufacturing (EPIM) is a compilation of essays on 120 major product categories across the entire spectrum of U.S. manufacturing activity. The purpose of this publication is to provide product information in structured format to students and analysts. While the focus is on products, the industrial... |
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